I give it a day
Before FirstRow2.eu is registered...
Premier League boots footie-streaming site off Blighty's interwebs
The Premier League has won a court order to force UK ISPs to block footie streaming service FirstRow1.eu in Blighty. The High Court has ruled that the popular Swedish site's links to football match streams from around the world are a breach of copyright and will order the site to be blocked by ISPs including Sky, Virgin, BT …
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Thursday 18th July 2013 09:40 GMT wowfood
Re: Hang on...
"It is absolutely imperative that content industries are afforded protection under the law if they are to continue investing in the sort of quality talent and facilities that has made them successful and of interest in the first place," a Premier League spokesperson said.
Considering the fact that many footballers make more in a week than most of us will in a decade, I imagine it must be the premiership they're talking about.
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Thursday 18th July 2013 11:32 GMT Dazed and Confused
Re: Hang on...
The judgment recognises the parasitic nature of ...
businesses being allowed to drive a coach and horse through the whole concept of the freedom of movement of goods and services throughout the EU. This judgement says that people with the sort of money the Prem has can ignore the laws or payoff people to have them rewritten in their favour, even when doing so goes against the whole idea of the "Common Market".
When VW/Audi were found to be making it difficult for their German customers to buys their cars in Italy the EU slapped them with a bloody great fine. Yet it seems the Prem can charge different rates in different territories with impunity. Get real judge. Sure people should be able to do this for free but megadosh businesses should equally be made subject to the law which the rest of us have to live by.
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Thursday 18th July 2013 09:51 GMT Velv
"estimated revenues of up to £10m a year, whilst giving nothing back to the sport"
Yes, because Sky and BT are giving SO much more back to the SPORT. Sport is being killed by the money.
We're paying for the figures our children idolise, and we're not really getting something worthy. While it could be argued business is business, we all get what we pay for - good to see that popularity is dragging the world down to the lowest common denominator.
I'm not suggesting the streaming should exist, but to simply suggest it is depriving the poor suffering world of Premiership soccer is the wrong perspective for a caring society. They probably snort £10m of Cocaine a year.
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Thursday 18th July 2013 10:18 GMT Justicesays
I can hardly wait
Until the camels back breaks, and they run out of gullible billionaires to buy the failing clubs.
The sooner the whole rotten edifice falls over and the world suddenly discovers that a nob-end with the personality of a carrot who is able to kick a ball a bit is not really worth $100s of millions the better.
My only concern is the probable economic downturn this will cause as billions of $ suddenly "vanish".
And that our equally useless and overvalued leaders will decide its a great plan to spend public money to buy out the football clubs because "they are too important to fail". And then sell them to their mates at below the market rate afterwards of course.
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Thursday 18th July 2013 10:35 GMT lglethal
Oh please, oh please...
... let someone bring up a case against Google or YouTube using this as an argument...
"YouTube aggregates together a large number of streams from a variety of streamers, indexes them for the convenience of the user and provides a simple link for the user to click on in order to access a specific stream," Justice Richard Arnold said.
"It is true that the technical effect of clicking on the link is to direct the stream from the UCG site to the user's computer, but even so the stream is presented in a frame provided by YouTube. In all the circumstances, I consider that YouTubeis responsible for the communication. ""
Fixed that for you!
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Thursday 18th July 2013 12:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Blighty? Pah...
Another finger in the dyke. At some point they will run out of fingers and realise that perhaps they should revisit their business model and charge less.
Until then, I actually pay a national TV company $28 a season to be able to watch every single PL match online, in decent quality. Naturally, it isn't a British company but with VPNs I can be whichever nationality I like.
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Thursday 18th July 2013 15:55 GMT SirDigalot
They do the same
over here with NFL, can't watch you favourite team unless you have a really expensive package with a satellite provider.
Funny the minor league allows you to buy individual games streamed online or a season pass for whatever team you like. I am pretty sure the major league teams would make a killing doing that, but I guess they have already done that calculation.
I really do not want ALL the teams just the team I want to watch... I also do not want satellite I guess I am picky, and I guess they do not appreciate that people do actually move around the country/globe these days, it is not the early 20thC any more!
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Thursday 18th July 2013 15:57 GMT Shasta McNasty
So the difference with this and google is....
"...FirstRow aggregates together a large number of streams from a variety of streamers, indexes them for the convenience of the user and provides a simple link for the user to click on..."
"...the stream is presented in a frame provided by FirstRow..."
So is the judge's beef with the fact that FirstRow puts it in a frame? Besides that, its no different to Google (vast army of lawyers notwithstanding).
The only way to impact any form of online "piracy" is to offer the same goods online at the same time but don't take the piss with the price.
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Thursday 18th July 2013 18:53 GMT Only me!
UK Gov V Premier Leauge
This is a nice set of stories today.............................
1. UK Gov charge £56M for calling them
2. Steams from Premier League get cut
SKY charge more and more ..... a few select people agents, players, hangers on, etc. get paid a few extra million each a year
Gov charges poorest to say "Where is my pension money this week?"
Just trying to get my head around equality today.
My head hurts!
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